Nature’s laws demand from us to change and unite

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJul 26, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“Why do I have this urge/desire for social alienation (in terms of withdrawal from society)?”

We are all born with a 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic nature. This nature has been developing and intensifying thoughout history, reaching its maximum strenght and intensity in our times, especially in the Western part of the world. This selfish and egoistic development is still lagging behind elsewhere, although gradually approaching the Western level since we are driven by the same “operating software” with certain national and cultural differences.

Thus we are driven to ruthlessly and exclusively compete with others and try to survive and succeed at the expense of others, while also closing ourselves into our own, fiercely defended confines.

Today we can even hife behind the “virtual facade” the Internet and social media provides. The pandemic showed us that we can work and conduct most of our “social” activities online, and we can continue our attempts to control, manipulate and exploit one another without actually “touching” each other.

The situation will continue to worsen and humanity will continue to decline and self-destruct unless we willingly and humbly start staudying ourselves and we recognize and accept the inherent nature we are born with. Then we will be able to generate a true and irrepressible need and desire to start changing and further developing ourselves until we can rebuild human society on true, mutually supportive and mutually complementing integration and cooperation.

This is not some “nice idea”, religion or mysticism. This is not even some “moral” goal we need to achieve.

We need to build a “nature-like”, finely balanced and mutually integrated human society because nature’s strict and unchanging laws and evolution’s deterministic goal and purpose demands this from us. And if we do not adapt ourselves to nature’s laws and evolution willingly, consciously and proactively, then we will be forced to do so by worsening situations and intolerable suffering.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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